Ellesmere Memorial Including Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1974. Monument.
Ellesmere Memorial Including Railings
- WRENN ID
- ruined-fireplace-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1974
- Type
- Monument
- Address
- Ellesmere Memorial Including Railings, Leigh Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 735 008
- Coordinates
- 53.50361, -2.40018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ellesmere Memorial, located on Worsley Leigh Road, is a memorial monument built in 1859 by Driver and Weber of London. It was created following a competition judged by Charles Barry to honor Francis Egerton, the 1st Earl of Ellesmere. The structure is made of ashlar and features a band of Minton encaustic tiles, along with corner columns made from a unique serpentine stone discovered at the Lizard.
The memorial consists of two main stages topped by a spire, which was originally situated on a tall octagonal column that stood 132 feet high but has since been removed. The lower stage includes gabled angle buttresses with offsets, pointed arched aedicules set on squat colonettes that frame the arms and an inscription. Above this, there is a steep crocketed gable over a dwarf biforium, which features a cusped arcade and crocketed gablets. The heraldic finials at the corners were removed around 1980.
The upper stage is octagonal and has crocketed gables with pierced tympana supported by colonnettes, framing pointed arches. The diagonal sides of the upper stage feature blind cusped pointed arches. The octagonal spire has an open lantern stage, with each pointed opening topped by a gable. Surrounding the memorial are iron railings adorned with ornamental finials.
Local climate
Ellesmere Memorial Including Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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